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Ellen Fitzhugh

ELLEN FITZHUGH  

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below is a list of Ellen Fitzhugh's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Grind         Herringbone         Luck, Pluck And Virtue         Paper Moon

Grind

Ellen Fitzhugh
Chicago 1933. Harry Earles Burlesk. The Company comprises both black and white performers - this is only allowed because the management have been paying off the authorities. Gus is the top white comedian in the show - but he is going blind and is trying to hide it from management and cast. He keeps loosing "stooges" needed for his act. In despearation he takes on homeless down and out Thomas Doyle. They gel and they start to perfect their act.. However, an on stage accident due to Gus' diminshing sight leads him to decide that it is all over and he commits suicide. Doyle is distraught and runs away and gets drunk. He is found by Satin the black stripper from the show. and she looks after him after he is attacked by a gang of yobs.LeRoy, the black comic in the show is jealous and attacks Doyle when he returns to the theatre this leads to racial tensions with the cast. Then during Satin's act a gang of racists yobs attack - differences are put behind everyone when they fight to defend each other.

Notes:
Book by Fay Kanin; Music by Larry Grossman; Lyrics by Ellen Fitzhugh

1st Produced:
Mark Hellinger Theatre    16 Apr 1985

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Genre:
Musical

Parts:
Male:  15            Female:  8            Other:  extras

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Herringbone

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Music by Skip Kennon; lyrics by Ellen Fitzhugh; book by Tom Cone. Based on the one Act play by Tom Cone

1st Produced:
Playwrights Horizon, New York    16 Jun 1982

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1st Published:
in Plays from Playwrights Horizons, Broadway Play Pub (May 1987)   978-0881450477

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Luck, Pluck And Virtue

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Music by Allen Shawn; lyrics by Ellen Fitzhugh; book by James Elliot Lapine

1st Produced:
Linda Gross Theater, New York    1995

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Paper Moon

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Music by Larry Grossman; lyrics by Ellen Fitzhugh; book by Martin Casella

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